The next person hired to lead the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority must understand that every dollar the state-owned corporation handles belongs to the public.
The current AIDEA executive, former Dunleavy chief of staff Randy Ruaro, consistently claims that the hundreds of millions of public funds under AIDEA’s control are not state funds. He’s wrong about that.
Read MoreThe claims by President Donald Trump and Alaska Republicans that South Korea has agreed to pay more than $54 billion to build the Alaska LNG project were nothing but a pre-election effort to try to boost the reelection campaign of Sen. Dan Sullivan.
The news emerging from South Korea continues to show that what Trump, Sullivan, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Rep. Nick Begich the Third said about the gasline in the Oval Office on September 30 was a con job.
Read MoreThe mishandling of this incident is indicative of a widespread problem with AIDEA—its failure to conduct business out in the open, concealing vital information from the public and legislators.
Read MoreThe Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority has been shoveling money out the door as fast as it can during the final days of the Dunleavy regime with little or no outside scrutiny. The total has topped $225 million since August.
Read MoreI was wrong in guessing that Donald Trump would lose interest in tampering with the Alaska U.S. Senate race, distracted by the thrashing he took in the Congressional races Tuesday and seek solace in his ballroom.
Today Trump claimed that Sen. Dan Sullivan should be declared the winner, which would be unconstitutional and illegal.
Read MoreWe don’t know how many decisions Dunleavy is making in the final days of his administration without public review. The proposed right-of-way transfer to Glenfarne is a giveaway of public assets that should be stopped. If the idea has merit, the next governor can deal with it.
Read MoreConfusion now reigns in the Wasilla branch office of the Wall Street Journal.
“The Beltway refrain has been that Alaska did enough distinguishing to make the ballot clear. That’s a hoot,” Kimberley Strassel hooted Tuesday.
Read MoreThe stunning national victories by Democrats in the U.S. Senate races won’t eliminate the Trump claims of corruption about the contest in Alaska, but they guarantee that the future control of the Senate doesn’t rest on whether Trump and Sen. Dan Sullivan can promote their claim that a Sullivan loss is due to cheating by Mary Peltola.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan has just started to repeat Donald Trump’s claim that some Alaskans don’t know what incumbent means, so they are unable to read the ballot and tell which Sullivan is which. Trump says you need a “190 IQ” to read the Alaska ballot.
Read MoreIt says a lot about Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins that even when he broke two bones in his right leg during a paragliding flight from Flattop four years ago, it was a bipartisan event.
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